Dentaid celebrates Volunteers’ Week 2026
We are celebrating all of the tireless volunteers who support Dentaid’s work across the UK and overseas as part of Volunteers’ Week 2026 (Monday 1st-Sunday 7th June 2026)
Running every year since 1984, Volunteers’ Week is a national celebration of volunteers and provides an opportunity to thank volunteers for their time, passion and skills. The campaign highlights the diversity and unity of volunteer work across the UK.
Having the support of hundreds of dentists, dental nurses, industry professionals, oral health educators and many other volunteers is crucial to ensure our work to provide dental care can reach as far and as wide as possible.
Since the start of 2026 alone, 195 volunteer dentists and dental nurses have supported our work delivering 522 charity dental clinics across the UK.
That work is enriched by those who volunteer for Dentaid outside of clinical settings, including those who visit schools and education settings to deliver BrightBites sessions or join with health professionals to deliver dental treatments and oral health advice in under-served communities across Africa and Asia.
Closer to home, we also welcome the support of those who use their personal time to refurbish donated equipment and help build portable dental chairs to send overseas at our workshop in Totton.
This year marks 30 years since Dentaid was established to provide dental care to people in developing countries. Since the very beginning of Dentaid’s operations, volunteer support has been crucial in helping us to expand our support to more people in need than ever before.
This week we will be travelling up and down the country to reward volunteers who give their time to help those less fortunate to access important oral health care.As we prepare to deliver more charity dental clinics than ever in 2026 and beyond, the role of our volunteers has never been more important.
You can check out our volunteers’ stories and find out how they were motivated to get involved with Dentaid here. If you are a dentist or dental nurse who would like to volunteer your services on one of Dentaid’s charity clinics you can find out more here.
Spaces on our overseas trips to Uganda, Cambodia and Malawi for 2027 and 2028 are now available and more information on those is available here.
You can also find out more about signing up for BrightBites here.